http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/06/the_sinking_house_of_yang.html en-gb 30 Tue 22 Dec 2009 10:03:38 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/06/the_sinking_house_of_yang.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/06/the_sinking_house_of_yang.html?page=16#comment5 The worst thing Yang has done is to convince investors that he's not running the company in their best interests. Rather, he runs it like a personal fiefdom, and lets his personal grievances get in the way of making money.Yahoo is a dead company walking. Mon 30 Jun 2008 09:09:50 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/06/the_sinking_house_of_yang.html?page=13#comment4 Whenever there is a shuffle, employees are bound to move. http://blog.abhishekonline.info/2008/06/29/is-yahoo-sinking/ Sun 29 Jun 2008 13:42:08 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/06/the_sinking_house_of_yang.html?page=10#comment3 I expect the cause is a fair bit less romantic.These are smart guys, and I expect they've taken a look at the international markets, looked at Yahoo!'s decreasing stock value and decided to cash in their shares to ride out the storm. Mon 23 Jun 2008 12:25:08 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/06/the_sinking_house_of_yang.html?page=6#comment2 Well my thoughts are that Microsoft would not have done any better. I am sure Yahoo employees would have jumped ship anyway if it was taken over by Microsoft. At least Yahoo still retains control now instead of Microsoft calling the shots and running Yahoo to the ground. Sat 21 Jun 2008 09:07:13 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/06/the_sinking_house_of_yang.html?page=3#comment1 To build a Google beater Microsoft (and/or Yahoo) wouldn’t have to have a better search engine than Google, they`d just have build one as good as Google`s. At the moment neither are anywhere close. The majority of people that use Google at present do so because they are generally happy with the search results it produces. And that’s enough to keep them going back. They would then also have to pray that Google took its eye off the ball so that people began to distrust Google`s results enough to try an alternative. Or that Google: 1) Tried to become a different type of service (a portal for example).2) Began to clutter it`s homepage with all the other services it`s diversifying into. (There are signs this may happen.)3) Got enough bad publicity for people to want to try an alternative simply so they don`t have to associate themselves with Google. (Microsoft being the 300 lb gorilla in the OS and office suite market already has an image problem; many open many source adherents are so from an ideological dislike of Microsoft.)Google and Yahoo both emerged just over a decade ago by both demonstrating that they had better approaches to searching than AltaVista`s metatag approach. (Remember Altavista? It used to be the Search engine king.) There is always the possibility that two guy`s working from a garage will come up with a much better way of searching (there are still a lot of other search engines out there), get lots of great publicity and displace Google, MSN And Yahoo. But they’d also have to come up with a better alternative to Google`s Adsence (its advertising and revenue strategy) so that advertisers deserted Google; for at the end of the day this is all about money. Given Microsoft dominate so many markets I’m not unhappy that they don`t monopolise search (and its revenue) too.Personally I like Yahoo`s other services (although not often mentioned many of the services on its portal are still much better than the competitions (cough *MSN*)), but they don`t earn much money; that is Yahoo`s problem. I really hope Yahoo can come through this. Ask yourself, do you really want Microsoft to dominate absolutely everything? There`s nothing to gloat about here. Sat 21 Jun 2008 07:24:37 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/06/the_sinking_house_of_yang.html?page=0#comment0 "There are now very few companies that remain truly committed to defining the future of search and online advertising. Microsoft is one of them."The only problem is that Google is another.Microsoft has always been playing catch-up with search. It was probably the major reason it wanted Yahoo! in the first place. And Microsoft's usual market entry tactics of throwing money at a project/market segment and bulldozing the competition just doesn't to be a tenable proposition here when you look at Google's own reserves and huge lead.Google's own problems are less easy to pin down, though I suspect lots of those leaving have what Douglas Coupland once described as a "1.0 mentality". Once something hits maturity, for some people the challenge is lesser, so they move on.Yahoo is dying on its backside, squeezed by competitors it cannot really match any longer. It also is not quite sure exactly what it wants to be anymore; no wonder morale is bad. It is however on in the ye for all the greedy shareholders who are whinging about been denied a marriage of convenience and short-term profit with Microsoft. They are helping in no small way to finish Yahoo! off, though they can but see it. Fri 20 Jun 2008 12:31:46 GMT+1